Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

Quality, relevant content can't be spotted by an algorithm. You can't subscribe to it. You need people - actual human beings - to create or curate it.

"Orthodoxy my Lord " said Bishop Warburton in a whisper - "orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy."

I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die.

In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.

Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

Believe in the hard work. Believe in the preparation. It's not a matter of if it'll work; it's a matter of when.